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26 July 2012

Marine Innovations ~ On Design, Efficiency, Safety

The Economist spotlights Scandinavia's role in novel shipbuilding technologies in A voyage of discovery...

"Norway is an important centre of marine innovation and several foreign companies have operations there, too. One such is the marine division of Rolls-Royce, a British firm, which is collaborating with Farstad, a shipping company based in Alesund, and STX OSV, a shipbuilder. The result of their efforts is Far Solitaire (pictured above), the first of a new class of vessels which bristle with novel technology that promises to make shipping safer, cleaner and cheaper."